There are three things I know by heart and will be able to recite for the rest of my life: A Hail Mary, Al Pacino's speech from Any Given Sunday, and Allen Iverson's "We Talkin' 'Bout Practice" tirade.

That quote and video clip has been used and re-used for so long that soon enough there's going to be an entire generation of kids going "We talkin' 'bout practice," only they'll have no idea who said it or where it came from. It's part of the lexicon.

I'm not going to name names, but there were guys in the Eagles' locker room on Tuesday, joking with each other and yelling, "We not talkin' 'bout the game, the actual game, we talkin' 'bout practice." It translates to, you know, actual athletes.

In a situation like this, it's pretty rare to find out any new information about how or why something happened a good 11 years later. But today is that day.

The Glove, Gary Payton, is now claiming he's the one actually responsible for Iverson's outburst.

Payton, appearing on the newly-launched Fox Sports 1, praised Iverson at length upon hearing news of the Answer's impending retirement. He said the biggest concern when guarding Iverson was simply to avoid having his ankles broken.

“We were out somewhere during a summer, and we were all out having a good time, and we had a little bit too many… and he asked me, he said ‘how do you keep your body is so good of a shape, and don’t get hurt, and stay always on the court?’ And I just told him for real, my coach George Karl didn’t let me practice. So that was it. I said ‘You have to stop practicing.’”

Then after the legendary Iverson practice rant press conference?

“Oh no not this, don’t say it like that! Don’t say it like that Allen!”

This apparently led to a later interaction between Payton and Larry Brown when Brown approached Payton, telling him to "Look at what [he] created."

As promised in the headline, Donovan McNabb is also on the panel and speaks well of his interactions with Iverson when the two of them were atop the Philadelphia sports world.

Matt Rhule's first Baylor hires include 4 Temple assistants

Matt Rhule's first Baylor hires include 4 Temple assistants

WACO, Texas -- New Baylor coach Matt Rhule has made some immediate Texas connections by hiring the president of the state's high school coaches who is a former Bears receiver.

Rhule announced his first five hires with the Bears on Friday, three days after being named Baylor's coach. They include four members from his staff at Temple and David Wetzel, the head coach and athletic director the past 13 seasons at Ronald Reagan High School in San Antonio.

Sean Padden will serve as Baylor's director of football operations, similar to his role at Temple the past four years.

Rhule didn't immediately announce the titles and job duties for Wetzel, Francis Brown, Mike Siravo and Evan Cooper. There was also no indication of when the rest of his staff would be completed.

Brown and Siravo were defensive assistants at Temple, and Cooper was director of player personnel for the Owls.

Wetzel, who has coached in the state high school ranks for 25 years, was serving as president of the Texas High School Football Coaches Association. He lettered at Baylor in 1990 and 1991 while playing for Grant Teaff, and also earned a master's degree from the school in 1994. Before Reagan, he was head coach at schools in Killeen and Austin.

Wetzel told the Waco Tribune-Herald that he expects to play a major role in recruiting, but didn't know yet if he'd be coaching offense or defense.

"Given the opportunity, it's really a unique deal," Wetzel told the newspaper. "I feel like it's God's timing for me to be in the right place at the right time."

When Rhule was introduced Wednesday in Waco, he said he had already received about 480 text messages, many from coaches. He also didn't rule out the possibility of some of the current Baylor assistants staying, but said he hadn't had a chance to meet with them. Those assistants were retained from former coach Art Briles' staff with Jim Grobe as acting head coach this season.

NoteBaylor announced Friday that Jalen Pitre, a defensive back from Stafford, Texas, signed a financial aid agreement that will allow him to enroll for the spring 2017 semester after graduating from high school early. Before Rhule was hired, Pitre was the only player verbally committed for Baylor's recruiting class in February. He had 83 tackles, six interceptions and four forced fumbles as a senior.

Dorial Green-Beckham didn't support any charity with his cleats last Sunday.

In reality, he was funding the NFL.

The Eagles' receiver was fined $6,076 by the NFL for wearing Yeezy cleats (Kanye West's shoes), which had no affiliation to a charitable organization or cause, CSNPhilly.com has confirmed. Players around the NFL last weekend wore decorative spikes supporting a charity or cause they felt passionately about as part of the league's My Cleats, My Cause promotion. Green-Beckham was fined because his cleats were unapproved by the league; earlier this season Houston receiver DeAndre Hopkins was fined for wearing Yeezy cleats.